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Bug 727913 - Limit number of items shown in the GtkCombobox
Limit number of items shown in the GtkCombobox
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: GtkComboBox
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-04-09 19:11 UTC by Tobias Schönberg
Modified: 2018-04-15 00:37 UTC
See Also:
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Description Tobias Schönberg 2014-04-09 19:11:28 UTC 
Apparently there is no documented way of limiting the number of items in a GtkComboBox.

See:
http://www.gtkforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=178755

also:

http://www.learngtk.org/python_gtk3_tutorial/html/combobox.html
https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkComboBox.html
Comment 1 Daniel Boles 2017-03-03 14:42:25 UTC 
so, you want to limit the height of the menu, to show scroll arrows if more items than specified are present in the model? (rather than the current behaviour of only showing scroll arrows when there is not enough space on screen)

Now is the time to submit a patch, to get the new API into GTK+ 4.
Comment 2 Daniel Boles 2017-08-15 20:20:49 UTC 
Could you clarify in more detail what functionality you want?
Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2018-04-15 00:37:08 UTC 
As announced a while ago, we are migrating to gitlab, and bugs that haven't seen activity in the last year or so will be not be migrated, but closed out in bugzilla.

If this bug is still relevant to you, you can open a new issue describing the symptoms and how to reproduce it with gtk 3.22.x or master in gitlab:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/new